GUYS with tongue rings

[Warp Daddy]

This is one of the reasons (youth/rebellous random actions vs. reality) that has me convinced that if I ever give up this tooth thing I do all day long, I'm going to Medical School, specializing in dermatology, and then going to buy myself a big 'ol medical laser that's great a removing tattoos and viable for scar revision and then set up shop in a strip mall, right next to a liquor store/smoke shop down in some retirement community in Florida/Arizona and zap away at all the tattoos that have sagged due to 30+ years of aging, remove the tattooed name that the person had put on of their "fling of the week" while under the influence and do some scar revision work for all of the now 20 somethings that currently have lip/eyebrow piercings but with be quite cosmetically conscious of the scars they'll leave when they finally realize that their lives actually don't suck and drop their "I'm so oppressed" attitude that caused them to get the piercing as a sign of rebellion/personal liberation in the 1st place.

I figure that I'd have PLENTY of work in that type of scenario!

OK this may have been tongue in cheek BUT let me tell you i have a neighbor nice woman BUT shes 65 years old and pierced in her ears like you can't believe . The piercings are like 3 rows deep in each ear . In addition shewears 3 rings ON EACH finger and has tatooed arms and legs and god know where else shes signed or pierced . She's already broken awashing machine when one or more of her rings fell into the machine

I have NO problem if she wants to do it to herself BUT NOW at her age and she's overweight and things have all gone south it ain't exactly MOTIVATING .

Again she's very nice and a good neighbor but frankly at 65 its way beyond over the top ----EVER seen a WRINKED and Folded and droopy tattoo ???--FUGLY and the poor woman now tries to keep the tats covered BUT not the piercings

 

[wa-loaf]

This is one of the reasons (youth/rebellous random actions vs. reality) that has me convinced that if I ever give up this tooth thing I do all day long, I'm going to Medical School, specializing in dermatology, and then going to buy myself a big 'ol medical laser that's great a removing tattoos and viable for scar revision and then set up shop in a strip mall, right next to a liquor store/smoke shop down in some retirement community in Florida/Arizona and zap away at all the tattoos that have sagged due to 30+ years of aging, remove the tattooed name that the person had put on of their "fling of the week" while under the influence and do some scar revision work for all of the now 20 somethings that currently have lip/eyebrow piercings but with be quite cosmetically conscious of the scars they'll leave when they finally realize that their lives actually don't suck and drop their "I'm so oppressed" attitude that caused them to get the piercing as a sign of rebellion/personal liberation in the 1st place.

I figure that I'd have PLENTY of work in that type of scenario!

I figure investing in hearing aide companies is a good move too. With all the kids running around with booming cars and ipods there's going to be a lot of hearing loss a few years down the road.

 

[drjeff]

OK this may have been tongue in cheek BUT let me tell you i have a neighbor nice woman BUT shes 65 years old and pierced in her ears like you can't believe . The piercings are like 3 rows deep in each ear . In addition shewears 3 rings ON EACH finger and has tatooed arms and legs and god know where else shes signed or pierced . She's already broken awashing machine when one or more of her rings fell into the machine

I have NO problem if she wants to do it to herself BUT NOW at her age and she's overweight and things have all gone south it ain't exactly MOTIVATING .

Again she's very nice and a good neighbor but frankly at 65 its way beyond over the top ----EVER seen a WRINKED and Folded and droopy tattoo ???--FUGLY and the poor woman now tries to keep the tats covered BUT not the piercings

Warp, it's about 75% tongue and cheek and 25% serious!(and the serious percentage seems to slowly drift up as time goes on) If there was a way that I could apply my 1st 2 years of dental school (all basic sciences taken with and graded on the same scale with the medical students at UCONN -essentially we in dental school WERE med school students who then got to take extra courses all pertaining to the oral cavity during the 1st 2 years) towards med school and then just start with the 3rd and 4th year clinical rotations and then a dermatology residency, once my kids are through college, I'd give some very serious thought to it! Plus, on another level, I'd think that it would be a great intellectual challenge for me, and by virtue of how my education process has been to date (and continues), we never stop learning!

I just gotta figure that the massive explosion the last decade or so in tattoos and body piercings + the natural aging process and what it does to once firm, taught skin (often also combined with large scale sun exposure) is going to create a very large market for generalized skin repair procedures in the future.

 

[Trekchick]

DrJeff, you're pretty much on target.
Crazy stuff some folks do when they're young is not necessarily something they want to carry for life, eh?

On another note, do you think that the increase in removal technology has influenced decisions on getting tats, .......changing the feeling that its a life long decision?

 

[Warp Daddy]

Warp, it's about 75% tongue and cheek and 25% serious!(and the serious percentage seems to slowly drift up as time goes on) If there was a way that I could apply my 1st 2 years of dental school (all basic sciences taken with and graded on the same scale with the medical students at UCONN -essentially we in dental school WERE med school students who then got to take extra courses all pertaining to the oral cavity during the 1st 2 years) towards med school and then just start with the 3rd and 4th year clinical rotations and then a dermatology residency, once my kids are through college, I'd give some very serious thought to it! Plus, on another level, I'd think that it would be a great intellectual challenge for me, and by virtue of how my education process has been to date (and continues), we never stop learning!

I just gotta figure that the massive explosion the last decade or so in tattoos and body piercings + the natural aging process and what it does to once firm, taught skin (often also combined with large scale sun exposure) is going to create a very large market for generalized skin repair procedures in the future.

Doc : There's NO doubt it is a GREAT idea .Many of my physician friends tell me DERM is where it's AT on many LEVELS . No callbacks , tolerable risk, and the big kahuna $$$

 

[RootDKJ]

The ironic part is tatoos and piercings were once a good way to express a certain level of rebelliousness, with out effecting anyone other than yourself. Since it's now very mainstream to have tats or piercings, I'm the one rebelling for not having any. Go figure.

 

[billski]

Tattoos and piercing are really just one more trendy thing to do. While piercings can be removed, the tattoos are the things that many people regret a later in life.

 

[billski]

Naked, screaming, and covered in slime?

As long as the slime it natural, it can be lots of fun!

 

[drjeff]

DrJeff, you're pretty much on target.
Crazy stuff some folks do when they're young is not necessarily something they want to carry for life, eh?

On another note, do you think that the increase in removal technology has influenced decisions on getting tats, .......changing the feeling that its a life long decision?

Trek, my guess would be that when the majority of piercings/tattoos happen, that the person getting the needle isn't readily thinking about the technology that's available/might be available in the future if a cosmetic fix is needed 20 years later when what used to look like a 3" heart now looks like a 6" somewhat oval shaped amorphous blob, well then there might be some interest in the technology to fix

 

[drjeff]

Tattoos and piercing are really just one more trendy thing to do. While piercings can be removed, the tattoos are the things that many people regret a later in life.

Piercings can linger too, in the form of a scar. If it's a pierced belly button, no biggie scar wise. If we're talking a pierced lip/eye brow, and depending on where on the nose the piercing is, the scar left after healing upon removal can be a factor (your tongue doesn't scar as it heals, so unless it was a large diameter post in the piercing that leaves a permanent void in the quantity of tissue there, a pierced tongue will heal completely), if one chooses to keep enlarging the diameter of an ear piercing and one day decides that the "trendy in my 20's" inch diameter ear piercing isn't trendy any more, well then you've got a couple of really saggy earlobe to deal with.

The semi-ironic thing, is that if you have a post piercing scar after healing, you can often get is "revised" by having it tatooed with a skin colored ink - of course then if you get a good tan, your skin colored post piercing tattoo won't extactly match until you fade

 

[Marc]

Not a problem for people with cursed Irish skin. "Tan" isn't in our vocabulary unless talking about a leather coat.

 

[ctenidae]

Not a problem for people with cursed Irish skin. "Tan" isn't in our vocabulary unless talking about a leather coat.

Oh, it's not that bad- I tan easily, even with some good Irish stock. Of course, it's for about 0.4 seconds, then I switch right over to fire engine red for a few days, and right back to fishbelly white.

 

[drjeff]

Oh, it's not that bad- I tan easily, even with some good Irish stock. Of course, it's for about 0.4 seconds, then I switch right over to fire engine red for a few days, and right back to fishbelly white.

Gotta love "British Isles" skin, since that's what my 99% English/Scotch pale and pasty white skin does too when exposed to the sun for more than the requisite 0.4 seconds! My 1% Mohawk Indian blood will manage to convert about 3 square millimeters of that burn into a freckle that survives the mega peel that follows about 3 days after I look like a fire engine! :lol:

 

[ccskier]

Piercing are ghey as said. If my son wants to pierce his ear or aything for that matter, he will have to wear a bra. If he ever comes home with those big stupid ass floppy earing things, he can move out. I am embarrassed for the person who has them. The gal at my dry cleaners has one and I am tempeted to ask her to remove it.

 

[deadheadskier]

So you wouldn't be cool if your kid looked like this:

 

[drjeff]

So you wouldn't be cool if your kid looked like this:

I'm thinking that he didn't get enough hugs from his parents growing up!

 

[riverc0il]

The ironic part is tatoos and piercings were once a good way to express a certain level of rebelliousness, with out effecting anyone other than yourself. Since it's now very mainstream to have tats or piercings, I'm the one rebelling for not having any. Go figure.

I think only the more exotic tattoos and piercings are really based partially on rebelliousness. But I would not say they are "mainstream". As has been pointed out in this thread, it is a lot harder to get a professional job the more exotic of a tattoo or piercing you have. I think its mainstream to have hidden ones or "cute" tats (such as ankle).

I hired a guy a year ago that is working on a sleeve on his arm. Honestly? I had to fight off that initial reaction of "wow, unprofessional". Good thing I did, the guy does amazing work. But even with my very open approach to such things had that initial unconscious reaction that I needed to be aware of. Most hiring managers at larger corporations would either not be aware of that internal reaction or would heed it for more adventurous or exotic visible stuff.

Heck, when my significant other was in college, she got a job at Pizza Hut part time and got a TON of hell for an eye brow piercing. They made her cover it up with a band aid which basically huge amount of attention to her eye brow... so they eventually caved. She took it out for the interview though.

 

[skizilla]

Worst tatoo at a ski resort

I don't have any, would not get one. Done tastefully and with restraint they can be okay. I think of them not as being rebellious but as a way of wearinng a uniform, to self identify yourself, nothing could be less rebellious. I felt the same way about the punk rock kids in high school and I owned more punk record than most of them.

WORST TAT i ever saw was a NAZI swastika taking up the whole side of a guys neck at Okemo. Nothing hiding jacket actually zipped down a bit to display it proudly. Not a dirt bag looking guy either he was in his mid twenties clean cut could have been a banker. I was 40 feet from him across the line and it took all my strength not to tell him off for being a jag off Nazi. I was awed by the balls it took nonetheless. We are skiing and there to have a good time. Doing something like that just provokes people and if you are in to doing that recreationaly you should not be at a ski resort ruining everyone elses good time. Total Jerk Face. Loved the chart BTW.

 

[WJenness]

Since we're now talking about strange tatoos seen at ski resorts... I saw one that amazed me last year...

I was in the pool at my buddy's condo at SR, there was a girl who had Van Gogh's Starry Night tattooed across her lower back. If it was done well, it would have been amazing (but still a very odd tattoo)... However, it was obvious the person who did the tat wasn't up to the challenge, and it sadly, didn't look very good...

-w

 

[Hawkshot99]

A girl I know, has this skiing tat....